513:, Angle PLC, 14 April 2011. "Geomerics ... sales for seven new titles with three major publishers in the first quarter. All the new titles are with large publishers and include some of the industry’s most iconic and best selling computer games. In keeping with the games industry’s standard working practices, details of the individual titles and publishers will not be made public until those titles are released. At this time, the only information Geomerics is able to disclose is that three of these titles are scheduled to be released in calendar 2011, all of them well-known and highly regarded game franchises."
319:, a Cambridge-based mobile CPU and GPU designer, acquired Geomerics, "for a number of reasons but foremost was Enlighten, Geomerics' award-winning technology for real-time lighting" said Dennis Laudick, ARM's vice president of partner marketing. The terms of the deal were not made public.
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